“The summit will convene leaders from government and industry as well as software practitioners to discuss the development, release and use of open source software, which is characterized by a collaborative development process and free user access. “

Discussion topics will include:

The current and future state of the government open source community

How-to insights for open source projects in government

Real-world projects and their successes and challenges, and

Government procurement of open source software.

As the role of open source in government expands and matures, the relationship between technology, policy and culture will be increasingly important. Open source brings numerous benefits to government software projects, including

Increased software quality

Reduced development costs

Faster development cycles and reduced barriers to public-private collaboration through new opportunities to commercialize technology.

“This inherently transparent, participatory, and collaborative approach is revolutionizing the way software is created, improved and used.”

The agenda is full of interesting topics, but just to name a few:

How do you start an open source project from scratch?
How do you release an already existing software project?